Christine Holbo is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she offers classes on literary realism, the transatlantic tradition of the novel, sentimentalism and affect theory, protomodernisms, regionalisms, little magazines, Pragmatism, and other American errors. She is the author…

Matthew A. Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he works on the intersections among 19th– and 20th-century science, literature, and philosophy in a…

Lara Langer Cohen is an associate professor of English at Swarthmore College. She is the author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and co-editor, with Jordan Alexander Stein, of Early…

Harilaos Stecopoulos is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa. Co-editor of Race and the Subject of Masculinities (Duke, 1997), he is the author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976 (Cornell, 2008).

Monique Allewaert is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research integrates literary analysis with political and environmental theory to contribute to an American studies that attends to the flows and structures of colonialism that shape…

John Alba Cutler is an associate professor of English and Latinx Studies and interim director of the Latina and Latino Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (Oxford, 2015), as…

Lisa Mendelman is an assistant professor of English at Menlo College. She researches and teaches at the intersections of science and affect in American literature since 1865. Her first book, Modern Sentimentalism (Oxford UP, 2019), chronicles the emotional history of the modern woman and…

Joseph Rezek is an associate professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade: 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). His work has appeared or is…

Marina Bilbija comes from Wesleyan University, where she is an assistant professor and where teaches and writes about Afro-diasporic print culture in the long nineteenth century. Her work has appeared in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and…

Radiclani Clytus works at the intersections of new media and nineteenth-century American literature and visual culture. He has written extensively on transatlantic abolitionist imagery and is the editor of two prose compilations by poet Yusef Komunyakaa. His manuscripts “Graphic Slavery: American…